EAASM complaint versus on-line pharmacy

The European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines, has issued a formal complaint to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority, the Medicines and  Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the Royal  Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain about an on-line pharmacy which  is accused of selling emergency contraception, prescription drugs and  tax-free cigarettes illegally and without observing UK age restrictions.

The EAASM is a UK-headquartered organization which campaigns against  parallel trade in medicines and favors greater protection from  counterfeit drugs throughout the European Union. It makes no secret of  receiving funding from research-based drugmakers.

Lloyds Pharmacy, a legitimate company, recently announced that it would  make the morning-after pill available on-line, which the EAASM argues  has triggered bootleg suppliers to promote unrestricted access to the  drug for prices as low as one fifth of that charged by official outlets,  which the Alliance claims is likely to be fake or substandard. The drug  safety campaign group named www.uk-online-pharmacy.com, which is hosted  in the USA, as one of the offending Internet retailers.